{"id":314696,"date":"2019-08-17T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314696"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:56:34","slug":"delhi-fire-breaks-out-at-aiims-blaze-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-fire-breaks-out-at-aiims-blaze-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Fire breaks out at AIIMS, blaze under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg 652w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-591x420.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A massive fire broke out on Saturday evening at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fire had reportedly broken out at a building near the Emergency Ward of the hospital. The fire department evacuated people from the building, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 34 fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the fire that caused damages to the second and third floor of the PC Block has been brought under control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No casualty was reported in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union minister Arun Jaitley is undergoing treatment at the hospital, but he is housed in a different building in the complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal earlier in a tweet said, \u201cThe fire in AIIMS building will be brought under control at the earliest. Fire Service trying it&#8217;s best to extinguish the fire. I appeal to everyone to maintain calm and allow the Fire Services personnel to do their work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire broke out on Saturday evening at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The fire had reportedly broken out at a building near the Emergency Ward of the hospital. The fire department evacuated people from the building, sources said. Around 34 fire engines were rushed to the spot to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1379,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314700,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314696\/revisions\/314700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}